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It's An Interlinked 24/7 Real Time Personal Publishing Social Media Driven World. And I'm An Antisocial, Extremely Private, Cynical, And Snarly Curdmugeon. So I Went To The Stocktoberfest New New Media Conference Last Week And Hungout With Web Visonaries, Social Media App Developers, Retired And Active Venture Capitalists, Entrepreneurs, International Financeers, And Code Monkeys. I Feel Like A Fish Who Just Got Introduced To The Wonders Of The Bicycle.
Monday, October 29, 2012, 01:47 AM
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
—Mark Twain
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If You Are Smart, Talented, And Lucky, It Seems You'd Be Unstoppable. But The Third Leg Of The Stool Trumps The Other Two Hands Down....
Saturday, October 6, 2012, 01:49 PM
"No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life -- you win some and you lose some."
-- Ken Keyes, Jr.
Killer...
http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/roy-bucha ... ign=121006
Poetry For The Times... Pretty Much All Times And Every Time. Check the Years RK Was Born And Died. Pretty Much Timeless.
http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2012/10/06/if/
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/10/ja ... existence/
1980 to 2000 and 2000 to now. What I do with my 401 is situation dependent. This is an active management period for my self managed plan. When the time is right, I got no problem sitting still and getting rewarded big time for it... But now ain't that time. Now is more of a make hay while the sun shines cuz it ain't gonna last and don't be so stupid as to stand out inna rain and get wet, cuz ya can always lose what you've made being asleep at the switch... Pretty clear to me...
Tuesday...
http://economywatch.nbcnews.com/_news/2 ... onomy?lite
http://bottomline.nbcnews.com/_news/201 ... aults?lite
New Computer...stay tooned...
Saturday, July 28, 2012, 11:52 AM
Stay tooned while I revise my set up.... In the mean time, I've moved a little from bonds to stocks. This is a window into part of what I'm doing. There's more than this going, but this is food for thought. http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2012/0 ... ming-back/http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2012/0 ... gher-lows/http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2012/0 ... cond-half/I don't like what I see, but the price action DEMANDS that I pay attention and doesn't care about what I like...
Bull Markets Are A Breeze, You Buy, You Hold, The Money Flows In, And You Look And Feel Like A Genius. Bear Markets, You Allocate And Reallocate And Risk And Work Hard For A Hand Full Of Dollars. Oh Well. That's How The Game Is Played.... Victories Are Unimpressive And Sweet! Or So I've Been Told...
Saturday, July 7, 2012, 02:46 PM
Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution, which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
-- Gary Ryan Blair
When The World's Spiraling Down, Save The Best Of What's Still Around... Like Lindley And Cooder.
Saturday, June 23, 2012, 12:50 PM
“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
Not That It Can't Continue...Just Not Forever.
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/06/us ... re-buyers/
http://www.davidmcwilliams.ie/2012/06/1 ... ft-options
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/ ... f=business
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/06/21/italy-risks/
The BIS (Bank Of International Settlement)was formed in 1930 and acts as a central bank for the world’s monetary authorities. It said extraordinary measures have reduced incentives for politicians and other borrowers to repair balance sheets, and created the illusion that central banks can do much more to stoke growth and redress imbalances. Central bank policy “buys time” in the short term for banks and governments to tackle debt overhangs, the BIS said. European finance ministers meeting in Luxembourg last week battled over strategies to contain the debt crisis. Leaders are due to hold a summit on June 28-29, which will be their 19th since the turmoil erupted.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-2 ... -says.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-2 ... -says.html
I'm operating on the basis that the last part of the popping of the tech/real estate bubble is about to occur; the "You postponed it, but you can't escape it phase." Interest rates near zero and money donated to money center banks has bought some time. Now the problems haves to be fixed. Including the debt created in postponing the problems... I'm mostly concerned with the return OF capital, rather than the return ON capital. Watch this insanely aggressive ex motorcycle road racer get prudent.
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/06/wh ... -cuts-7-1/
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/06/wa ... k-to-life/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/middle-cl ... print.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/24/busin ... .html?_r=1
WED...
Internet Issues..... But the fact that I posted that, means.....
Thursday, May 31, 2012, 03:01 PM
Thursday Not much changed... Lookit da S&P..... Friday, Well... That unemployment report qualifies as a change.... Cash and bonds inna 401 work fo me.... CHECK IT OUT. STAY FLEXIBLE W/ DOUGIE, AND MAKE NO MISTAKE... SOMETIME INNA FUTURE, I WILL GO WAY LONG AGAIN... I DUNNO WHEN, BUT THAT IS THE OTHER SIDE OF BEING 95% CASH/BONDS INTO TODAY's BIG DOWNDRAFT. http://seabreezepartners.net/letters&am ... p;catid=15http://dealbreaker.com/2012/05/warren-b ... ent-ideas/http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/06/contagionex/Don't think for a minute, that with $150,000,000 on the line, your health and well being might not be onna line right next to it.... http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-3 ... llion.htmlhttp://www.thereformedbroker.com/2012/0 ... s-middles/ 6/4/12 All Bonds And Stable Value. Stay Tooned...  ( 3 / 1153 )
There Is No Point To Making Money In The 401 If After Every Rip, I Give It Right Back On The Next Dip. "Deer In The Headlights" And Passive Acceptance Are Not My Preferred Modes Of Operation....
Saturday, May 19, 2012, 01:07 PM
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
--Herm Albright
Sometimes ya turn yer back onna favorite burger shake and fries and go for some duck breast tangerine ginger Marsala and scallops poached in butter, garlic, and shallots.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4IMMaF7 ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jeq-BTGbJKE
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-1 ... ising.html
The more I think about the events of the last two weeks, the more I think that we're simply at an all-time low. The meltdown in Europe, the quick 8% savaging of US stocks after a fairy tale Q1, the utter failure of Facebook's IPO to do a single fucking thing for the markets or the retail investing public...it's all just garbage.
J. Brown http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2012/0 ... -time-low/
Useful input. Valuable with a pull date and a limited area of use. No more. To be looked at through the lens of time and experience accepting that we are in a multi variant reality where reality is a process and value is time and personal space variant.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/philjohnson ... bookstore/
I'm not as good nor is it as easy as it looks. I watch for trends to develop and as Rev Shark says, "You try to catch most of the move." Playing the major trends and ignoring the meaningless noise costs me the start and finish of the major moves while I wait to make sure they are for real. The rapid trading restrictions puts me in partial positions for the start of the up trend as I try to reallocate responsibly within the restrictions, and it makes me way too heavy while I try to get out during the down trend. Still, over the last 17 months, I caught part of a 5% up move, avoided most of a down 20% move, caught part of an up 20% move, and I'm holding 10% stocks and going lighter during the current down trend. It's work, but what was scrambling for pennies in front of a steam roller years ago has now morphed into keeping a significant part of my retirement retirement money from taking a substantial hit on these swoosh downs.
"It is not how right or how wrong you are that matters, but how much money you make when right and how much you do not lose when wrong."
-- George Soros
For there's a change in the weather, There's a change in the sea, So from now on there'll be a change in me. There's A Change Inna Market, There's A Change In Me, Gonna Try To Keep A Dollar, Just You Wait And See...
Sunday, April 8, 2012, 03:09 PM
"It is not how right or how wrong you are that matters, but how much money you make when right and how much you do not lose when wrong." -- George Soros
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDOIL5Oq ... re=related
Stocks have hit the same levels three times in January, March, and April. And the news cycle sounds bad. Too much risk for no gains.
I'm reducing exposure to stocks by 50%. Mostly done... but still cutting back as restrictions allow.
The broad market does not correlate tightly with the funds in the 401 (less VIFSX), but it tells a less noisy story.
Stay tooned....
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